Custom Blood Magic: Ritual
Some chronicles allow for their players to develop customized powers for their characters. The following is a compilation of player created custom content in OWBN. At this time, custom content that is created and/or used by vampire PC's is required to be listed.
Yakshas seem more like nature spirits. They generally look human, and several heroes married female yakshinis, but they too can change their form and cast illusions, as well as command natural phenomena such as trees and water.
A Yaksha is a nature spirit who are benevolent, sometimes mischievous custodians of treasures. Left: Yaksi, Right: Yaksa
Yaksha (Sanskrit: यक्ष yakṣa, Tamil: யகன் yakan, இயக்கன் iyakan, Odia: ଯକ୍ଷ jôkhyô, Pali: yakkha) are a broad class of nature-spirits, usually benevolent, but sometimes mischievous and sexually aggressive or capricious caretakers of the natural treasures hidden in the earth and tree roots.[3] They appear in Hindu, Jain and Buddhist texts, as well as ancient and medieval era temples of South Asia and Southeast Asia as guardian deities. The feminine form of the word is yakṣī or Yakshini (yakṣiṇī).
In Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist texts, the yakṣa has a dual personality. On the one hand, a yakṣa may be an inoffensive nature-fairy, associated with woods and mountains; but there is also a darker version of the yakṣa, which is a kind of ghost (bhuta) that haunts the wilderness and waylays and devours travelers, similar to the rakṣasas.
The Sadhu collects a rare collection of herbs and spices offering them in a sacrificial fire mixed with their own blood to summon a Yakshas. Once summoned the creature will answer one question that it could reasonably know or play a trick one person they desire.
System: This ritual costs 1 Blood trait to cast. Once summoned the Yakshas will either perform 1 trick on a target (in which case they will need a sympathetic link to the person) or answer 1 question the Sadhu desires. The Yaksha may not know the answer to the desired question but will try its best to do so before departing. Yaksha should only be able to answer a question hey would reasonably be able to know the answer to considering their spirit like status. After either the trick is performed or the question answered the Yaksha will depart. Should stats for a Yaksha be needed use the Demon creation rules from Laws of the Night Sabbat Guide page 108 using the stats for Fiends. The Yaksha are not demons. Rather they are Spirit Like entities but also separate from them native to India and other places of Hindi, Buddhist, or Jani faith.